This is the ninth sermon by the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in a series he preached titled Spiritual Depression. In these sermons he’s getting to the root causes of what he calls “Miserable Christians,” Christians who struggle for various reasons with depression or lack of joy in their daily lives. In this sermon the Doctor…
I don’t have a lot of entries in my Reading Notebook for the summer because I am still plowing (slowly) through Don Quixote for my continuing education project. I’m following the advice given in The Well-Educated Mind and writing a brief summary at the end of each chapter. Then I’m adding the summaries in my…
How are you guys doing? Are you preparing for the new school year? This is kind of like the second January of the year, a great time to refocus and make some goals. I’m also reviewing my goals and making some changes. Lower Prices on EVERYTHING Speaking of changes, the first big change I want…
In this sermon my Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones he discusses feelings, and how to deal with them biblically. He is basing the sermon off of 2 Timothy 1:6. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. You can find the sermon in…
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Let’s just get the bad out of the way first: My garden STILL has aminopyralid herbicide in the compost. ARGH! Rather than dig the poison compost out, we built up by adding lots of rotted wood, good compost, and layers of other mulch last…
The more the church was afflicted, the more it multiplied. Matthew Henry I recently finished studying the book of Acts in Volume 4 of the I Will Meditate journals. On reviewing my pages after finishing, I noticed a big theme of persecution with multiple examples of how to live well under persecution. Living the Christian…
I was recently talking to a friend whose daughters were going to stay with family for a week and she would have some time to herself after work each day. There were lots of things she could do like we all could when we find ourselves with our children at a summer camp or VBS…
How was your week this week? We’re getting hot and dry in Oregon after a long, cold spring, so things in the garden are perking up and needing a lot more water. Garden A friend dropped in earlier this week and we ended up in the garden. Some of my potato plants were looking about…
I don’t know if there’s a better time than now for us to reach this sermon in Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Spiritual Depression book and sermons. I’ve uploaded a free printable for you to take your own notes while you listen to the sermon (click the picture or click here.) You can listen to the sermon…
I overestimated how much time I’ll have to blog with the garden going strong. Oops. However, it looks like most of the plants are perking up with the warmer weather, but I lost an entire row of jalapeno peppers, which is super sad. Next week I’ll be pulling up the garlic that I planted last…